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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3836782" data-attributes="member: 26737">You are likely to max out on payload before you hit the tow rating. You’re going to have to subtract the weight of your passengers (their real weights, not what’s on their drivers licenses), the weight of any luggage you keep in the truck,  anything extra you have in the truck that didn’t come from the factory, plus the weight of a weight-distributing hitch (which can weigh over 100lbs and is usually required to tow a trailer that weighs more than 5,000lbs), and, last but certainly not least, the tongue weight of the trailer. The tongue weight on a properly-loaded trailer should be 10-15% off the trailer’s gross weight, so if you get a 7500lb trailer, there goes 750-1125lbs of payload. Hope you can get all the luggage in the trailer, and hope the missus and the kids don’t have a big breakfast… You’d do well to ask on a Ram forum, because someone there will likely know what Ram’s conditions were for figuring that payload figure—e.g, were they assuming a 200lb driver with a quarter tank of gas on steel wheels and  the spare tire relocated to the trailer?  That’ll make a difference on how much you can safely tow…</blockquote>